Why Executive Team Coaching is an Unnecessary Luxury... for Those Rocking the Status Quo

As an?Executive Team Coach, I have worked with hundreds of individual senior leaders and dozens of campuses over the last several years. Coaching executive teams can be similar to personal performance coaching in many ways — especially when team leaders have the mindset that the team is the unified entity for building reliable systems.?

Healthy leaders are always healthy people first. I have yet to find a healthy leader who wasn’t first a healthy person. Those healthy leaders are the lifeblood of healthy teams.?

Guess what healthy teams build?

? You win if you said smart systems.

Simply put, you can’t build reliable systems with unhealthy teams.?

How many of you are standing upon the unhealthy shoulders of teams who built the dumpster fire of a system you have inherited?

Team members have an interdependent relationship with one another to achieve common priorities, objectives, tasks, and a campus vision.?Executive Team Coaching?helps these teams see their strengths, obstacles, and potential to accelerate the system’s mission delivery.?

In essence,?Executive Team Coaching?involves, at its core, systems thinking.?

Often campus leadership teams are composed of leaders who head their own divisions and departments. Hence, I have painfully observed executive team meetings that feel like battlegrounds to fight more for each department's insular desires than the system's holistic needs.?

As renowned author Patrick Lencioni has written in his book?The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, for the organization to succeed, the leadership team must be your number one team. The development process of?Executive Team Coaching?enhances a leadership team’s overall systems thinking beyond their immediate team.

Team Coaching Vs. Team Building

Executive Team Coaching isn’t the same as team building. While team building is essential, Executive Team Coaching is about digging into the tough stuff to create tangible alignment and cohesive teams. Executive Team Coaching includes a blend of coaching, teaching, facilitation, strategic blueprinting, assessment, mediation, and positive psychology.?

Executive Team Coaching sharpens your advantage and drives?Higher Performance.

I like to think of the dynamic of a leadership team as if it were a healthy marriage. Team building is like having fun dates and having regular alone time as a couple. This is essential for healthy couples. Still, this isn’t enough if the twosome desires to grow deeper in their commitment to each other and those they serve. Couples who only focus on having fun typically avoid having deeper conversations about their goals, future, setbacks, and where they might be failing to find alignment.?

Executive Team Coaching?is where leaders step into the “work” part of the marriage. Conversely, suppose a couple only does the hard work and never has time set aside for activities together. In that case, they can grow tired of “the grind,” which, left accidentally, can erode the relationship.?

We need time to be IN the relationship and work ON the relationship.

I invite you to read the full article from my original post ???? HERE.